Sean Broderick covers aviation safety, MRO, and the hardware side of the airline business from Aviation Week Network's Washington, D.C. office.
Broderick's aviation career started in 1991, working for Airbus in Toulouse. His industry experience includes four years with an aviation consultancy, where he helped launch a U.S. Part 121 carrier; 12 years with the American Association of Airport Executives, where he served as editor of Airport Magazine; and 20 years in full- and part-time roles with Aviation Week writing primarily about safety and the aftermarket.
Broderick was named the 2020 Aerospace Journalist of the Year by the Aerospace Media Awards. He also shared in a 2020 Neal Award for Best News Coverage with Aviation Week Network colleagues. Broderick and Aviation Week colleague John Croft shared the 2015 Flight Safety International Cecil A. Brownlow Publication Award recognizing "significant contributions by journalists to aviation safety awareness."
He graduated from James Madison University with a B.S. in Communications ('91) and earned an M.S. in Integrated Marketing Communications ('13) from West Virginia University.
Honeywell is projecting 3%-5% organic growth in total 2014 aftermarket sales, driven by a bump in air transport and regional flight hours and continued solid demand for business aviation retrofits, modifications, and upgrades (RMU). The commercial aftermarket accounts for about 10% of Honeywell’s annual revenues, and the air transport segment generates about two-thirds of the aftermarket dollars. But Honeywell expects that a 6%-8% increase in large cabin business jet hours will also help drive growth.
Aviation Technical Services (ATS) and the Kansas City Aviation Department (KCAD) have reached an agreement that will see ATS lease the remaining space in the airport’s KCI Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Base, filling a facility that was slowly abandoned in the years after American Airlines absorbed TWA. The deal gives ATS both its first location outside of its home state of Washington and a geographically strategic location in the central U.S. Notably, the maintenance provider’s largest customer, Southwest Airlines, also is the airport’s top airline.
A proposed FAA directive would give the world’s two Boeing 767-400 operators, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, 36 months to replace costly hydraulic pump turbine gearboxes with improved designs better able to contain turbine wheel failures.
